About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Kathryn Allan (kathryn@academiceditingcanada.ca) is an independent scholar of science fiction and disability studies. She is editor of Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure, co-editor (with Djibril al-Ayad) of Accessing the Future, and the inaugural recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Her scholarly and creative writing can be found in such diverse places as Letters to Tiptree, The WisCon Chronicles, Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, and Strange Horizons. She is working on a book that explores the radical possibilities of imagining inclusive future worlds by bringing together disability studies theory and science fiction.
Diane Carr (d.carr@ucl.ac.uk) is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies in the Institute of Education at University College London, where she teaches digital game and player studies and directs the Digital Media MA programme. Her current work (2016–20) on play, technology, disability, and community is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her work on games and players has appeared in numerous edited collections, as well as journals including Game Studies, Games and Culture, and Well Played. She is also co-author of Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play (2006).
Ria Cheyne (cheyner@hope.ac.uk) is Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, where she is also a core member of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies. Her monograph Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction (2019) examines the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s. Her work has also appeared in Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Science Fiction Studies, and Extrapolation, and she is guest editor of "Popular Genres and Disability Representation" (2012), a special issue of Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
Janice Hladki (hladkij@mcmaster.ca) is Associate Professor (retired) at McMaster University, in the School of the Arts and in Gender Studies and Feminist Research. Her publications informing embodiment and critical disability studies include the co-edited volumes (with Sarah Brophy) Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography (2014) and Pedagogy, Image Practices, and Contested Corporealities (2014) and articles for the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, Feminist Media Studies, The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice. Her record also includes research-informed art exhibition projects, which address feminist and crip representational practices, and her artistic contribution in performance and theatre has been influential for North American feminist performance art. [End Page 505]
Will Kanyusik (william.kanyusik@loras.edu) is Associate Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary American and British prose and drama, as well as courses in college writing. He has a PhD in English from the University of Minnesota with a focus in modern American and British literature and film studies. He also holds an MA in English from the University of Minnesota, and a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on the portrayal of disability and gender in twentieth-century literature and culture, particularly the relationship between disability and masculinity in the mid to late twentieth century.
Corinne Lajoie (cvl5810@psu.edu) is a PhD student in Philosophy and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research has been published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy. She is co-editing a special issue of Puncta: A Journal of Critical Phenomenology on critical phenomenologies of illness, madness, and disability.
Amy S. Li (amy.s.li@emory.edu) graduated with her PhD from Emory University in 2020 with a primary research focus on representations of embodiment in Frankenstein and contemporary science fiction. She received a BA in English and a BA in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University in 2014. Her dissertation, "A Future for Hopeful Monsters: Gender, Disability, Race, and Embodiment in Science Fiction," explores and analyzes histories of science and monstrosity in science fiction paired with insights from critical theories on feminism, Blackness...
